Early psychiatry at Yale: Milton C. Winternitz and the founding of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene.

Yale's current department of psychiatry was created by Dean Milton C. Winternitz in the 1920s as part of a broader effort to combine mental and physical components of medical care. This effort, which spurred the founding of Yale's institute of Human Relations, was the basis of Winternitz&#...

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Autor principal: Engel, J. W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1994
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2590800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7645310
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Sumario:Yale's current department of psychiatry was created by Dean Milton C. Winternitz in the 1920s as part of a broader effort to combine mental and physical components of medical care. This effort, which spurred the founding of Yale's institute of Human Relations, was the basis of Winternitz' interest in mental health. Although the institute soon closed because of interdisciplinary squabbling, this brief chapter in Yale's history illustrates the progressive thinking of the Dean and the pre-War place of psychiatry in medicine.

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